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Kristy Younger, Wells Fargos head of commercial banking intelligent automation, joins Bank Automation Summit – bankinnovation.net
Posted: February 19, 2022 at 9:12 pm
Kristy Younger, head of commercial banking intelligent automation at Wells Fargo, will join a panel on Modernizing Commercial Lending through Automation Tuesday, at 3:45 p.m. ET at the Bank Automation Summit 2022, to be held March 1-2 at JW Marriott in Charlotte, N.C.
The panel will cover use cases for new loan origination processes, developments in credit underwriting automation, and advances in digitalization of compliance and risk.
Younger and her team co-lead intelligent automation at the $1.95 trillion bank, where they partner with all commercial banking lines of business in the identification, solution design, delivery, and production assurance of intelligent automations.
Youngers more than 20 years of experience at Fortune 30 organizations include deep intelligent automation at scale, customer excellence, digital transformation, and innovation leveraging emerging technology and data-driven insights.
Bank Automation Summit, taking place March 1-2 in Charlotte, is the first and only event to focus solely on automation in banking. The event will feature the brightest minds from across financial services on intelligent automation strategies and deployment. Learn more and register here for Bank Automation Summit 2022.
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Rockwell Automation to Present at Citi’s 2022 Global Industrial Tech and Mobility Conference – Business Wire
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MILWAUKEE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Rockwell Automation, Inc. (NYSE: ROK) SVP and Chief Financial Officer, Nick Gangestad, and SVP, Software & Control, Brian Shepherd, will present at Citis 2022 Global Industrial Tech and Mobility Conference in Miami, Florida, on Tuesday, February 22, 2022.
The fireside chat will be webcast beginning at approximately 10:30 a.m. EST and will be available on the Rockwell Automation Investor Relations website at http://www.rockwellautomation.com/en-us/investors.html.
About Rockwell Automation
Rockwell Automation Inc. (NYSE: ROK), is a global leader in industrial automation and digital transformation. We connect the imaginations of people with the potential of technology to expand what is humanly possible, making the world more productive and more sustainable. Headquartered in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, Rockwell Automation employs approximately 24,500 problem solvers dedicated to our customers in more than 100 countries. To learn more about how we are bringing the Connected Enterprise to life across industrial enterprises, visit http://www.rockwellautomation.com.
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WEBINAR: Using Automated Infrared Inspections and Innovative Asset Management Planning Tools to Optimize Operations – Transmission & Distribution…
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Date: March 15, 2022Time: 11:00 am ESTDuration: 1 hourSponsor: Systems with Intelligence Inc.
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DescriptionAutomated infrared systems monitor remote sites and assets continually to detect anomalies and provide thermal data under all load and environmental conditions. Infrared technology is widely used by utilities to periodically scan equipment and detect thermal anomalies. While extremely useful, periodic scanning can miss issues that occur between inspection cycles or under certain load conditions.
Analytic tools that provide an accurate view for planning fleet maintenance are a must have for todays utility asset managers. With a complete view of grid asset health, networked risks, end of life predictions, and reliability forecasts, asset managers will be able to objectively analyze maintenance policies and asset investments. Decisions on capital or maintenance spend can then be directed where they mitigate risks most economically on the network.
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SpeakersAngelo RizzoPresident and CEOSystems with Intelligence Inc.Angelo Rizzo has over 20 years of experience in the electric utility and industrial automation industries. He has been instrumental in developing and supplying leading edge technology solutions for electric utility customers in the areas of protection relays, communications systems, video and asset monitoring systems. Angelo is currently the President & CEO at SWI and has held senior commercial and technical positions at RuggedCom and General Electric (Multilin). An IEEE member with a vision for developing solutions for utility markets.
Ted ZaluckiPresident and CEOEngineered Intelligence Inc.Ted Zalucki is the CEO and co-founder of Engineered Intelligence Inc, an infrastructure analytics technology company. Ted has 10+ years of hands-on experience in the T&D sector working within several utilities and as a consultant across North America. His expertise includes advanced analytics, investment planning, asset management, risk modelling, productivity, process optimization, construction management, design supervision, operations, and regulatory filings and defense. Teds background is in Industrial Engineering and Financial Engineering, he holds an ELITE certificate from the University of Toronto and is a practicing Professional Engineer.
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Nominations for the 59th Design Automation Conference Innovators Under 40 Award Now Open – Business Wire
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SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--For 59 years, the future of innovation for the design and automation of electronic systems and circuits has been found at the Design Automation Conference (DAC). This year will be no different. DAC is now accepting nominations for the Under 40 Innovators Award at the 59th DAC. The Under 40 Innovators Award is sponsored by DAC, the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). The award will recognize up to five of the top young innovators (nominees should be 40 years or younger in age as of June 1, 2022) who are movers and shakers in the field of design and automation of electronics.
This years honorees (to be announced prior to DAC) will be presented with the award at the 59th DAC Award Ceremony, being held at Moscone West Center in San Francisco, CA from July 10 14, 2022. DAC will co-locate with SEMICON West 2022, which is being held at the Moscone Center, North and South Halls, July 12 15, 2022.
From beyond the traditional automation around chip implementation, design automation is rapidly expanding to new areas such as neuromorphic computing, biological systems, cyber-security and cyber- physical systems. Within the electronics industry, the advent of new technologies and alternate scaling approaches using new integration methods are emerging as traditional CMOS technology scaling slows down. Young innovators are redefining and shaping the future of the design automation field in industry, research labs, start-ups and academia, and DAC wants to recognize the best and brightest.
Nomination criteria:
The Under 40 Innovators Award is open to people in industry or academia with technical contributions of notable impact in the field of design and automation of electronics. Nominees are individuals who have made their contributions through work within an organization to the design automation community and to the broader society. The award is intended for specific contributions such as commercial products, software or hardware systems, or specific algorithms or tools incorporated into other systems widely used by industry members and academia. Nominations that emphasize only metrics such as number of publications, patents, and citations will not be sufficient. The impact, as measured by commercialization and/or wide adoption, of the nominees contributions is required.
The nomination for this award should include a one-page summary (fewer than 500 words) of the nominees technical work with specific emphasis on the impact of the work, a cover page with the email address, daytime telephone number and date of birth of the nominee. All nominations should be supported by at least three letters of recommendation. One of those letters of recommendation must be from a leader inside the nominees organization. Self-nominations are not allowed.
Up to five awards will be given each year at DAC. Nominations must be received by March 31, 2022, as a single PDF file. For more information and to submit, visit: https://www.dac.com/About/Under-40-Award. Previous Under 40 Innovator Award Recipients:
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For additional information on the Under 40 award and the Design Automation Conference, visit http://www.dac.com.
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The Design Automation Conference (DAC) is recognized as the premier event for the design of electronic circuits and systems, and for electronic design automation (EDA) and silicon solutions. A diverse worldwide community, representing more than 1,000 organizations, attends each year. This includes system designers and architects, logic and circuit designers, validation engineers, CAD managers, senior managers and executives to researchers and academicians from leading universities. Close to 60 technical sessions selected by a committee of electronic design experts offer information on recent developments and trends, management practices and new products, methodologies and technologies. A highlight of DAC is its exhibition and suite area with approximately 200 of the leading and emerging EDA, silicon, intellectual property (IP) and design services providers. The conference is sponsored by the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM), and the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), and is supported by ACM's Special Interest Group on Design Automation (ACM SIGDA) and IEEEs Council on Electronic Design Automation (CEDA).
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Identification Barcode Reading in Factory Automation Market SWOT Analysis, Emerging Technologies, Growth and Forecast 2029 – Digital Journal
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The report on ID Barcode Reading in Factory Automation presents the best market and business solutions for the ID Barcode Reading in Factory Automation industry in this revolutionizing market to thrive in the market. Considering the strategic profiling of leading players in the Identification Barcode Reading in Factory Automation industry, thoroughly analyzing their core competencies and strategies such as new product launches, extensions, agreements, joint ventures, partnerships and acquisitions, the report helps companies. improve their strategies for selling goods and services. The Identification Barcode Reading in Factory Automation business report also identifies and analyzes upcoming trends along with key drivers,
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Identification Barcode Reading in Factory Automation Market is growing with a CAGR of 6.0% during the forecast period 2020 to 2027 and is projected to reach USD 3,309.01 Million by 2027.
The major benefit of using barcode scanning in industry is enabling supply chain managers to track stock keeping units (SKUs) and shipping information because the use of the scanner barcode eliminates default errors that occur in the traditional method.Due to increasing requirements for storing accurate data from the assembly line to outbound logistics, the market is expected to drive the evaluation period.Therefore, the benefits of barcode scanners in digital shopping such as product identification, LCD display and others are increasing the adoption of barcode scanners in digital shopping,
Segmentation:
On the basis of product type, the market is segmented into fixed mount barcode scanner, handheld scanner, laptop barcode scanner and others.In 2020, the fixed mount barcode scanner segment accounted for the largest market share owing to the growing demand for high-speed barcode scanners across various end-use industries, which increased the demand for fixed mount barcode readers.
On the basis of technology, the market is segmented into laser scanner, omnidirectional barcode scanners, camera readers, CCD (charge coupled device) readers, RFID (radio frequency identification) technology, pen type scanners and others .In 2020, the laser scanner segment accounted for the largest market share due to the growing demand for productivity improvement in the warehouse and logistics sector increased the demand for laser scanner.
On the basis of barcode type, the market is segmented into 1D and 2D.In 2020, the 2D segment accounted for the largest market share due to the growing demand for high-speed scanning devices at the point of sale, which led to an increasing demand for 2D barcodes.
Based on verticals, the market is segmented into consumer electronics, automotive, logistics, food & beverage, pharmaceutical & medical, packaging, oil & gas, and others.In 2020, consumer electronics accounted for the largest market share owing to the increasing use of high-speed barcode scanner in consumer electronics, which increased the demand for barcode scanner- bars in the market.
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The key players covered in the report are Jadak, Balluff Automation India Pvt.Ltd., RTscan Technology Limited, Scandit, Wasp Barcode Technologies, SATO America, Axicon Auto ID Limited, Handheld Group, Cognex Corporation, Great Eastern, Data Logic SpA, Honeywell International, Inc., OMRON Corporation, Zebra Technologies Corp.and KEYENCE Corporation among other domestic and global players.DBMR analysts understand competitive strengths and provide competitive analysis for each competitor separately.
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Library Automation Service System market size to expand momentously over 2022-2028 – Get News Alert
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The research report analyzes Library Automation Service System in terms of its market value, trends, competitive scenario, and potential growth opportunities. Global Library Automation Service System Market Report thoroughly covers analyzed insights in view of the global Library Automation Service System market along with its ever-changing patterns, infrastructural properties, industry environment, and all dominant aspects of the market. The report discusses market growth and influential elements in-depth including increased commercialization, sweeping demands, and latest technological advancements.
The up-to-date research report on Library Automation Service System market inspects every nook and corner of the domain to help businesses and stakeholders reap maximum profits in the forthcoming years. It also presents the reader with various approaches to address the current and upcoming challenges in the marketplace. It specifically highlights the prevailing trends, growth stimulants, and revenue prospects impacting the industry trajectory.
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Moreover, the business intelligence report casts light on all the factors significantly contributing to the development of every market segment. Besides, it compares the past and present business scenario to predict the growth route of the market and sub-markets over the assessment period (2022-2027).
Proceeding further, the document offers a detailed account of the well-known firms in the industry, and also touches on the upcoming contenders and new entrants. It also informs the reader regarding the aftermath of COVID-19 pandemic and reveals the opportunities that can be explored amid and post the global crisis.
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To conclude, the report encompasses a detailed assessment of Library Automation Service System market by closely examining its various segments. It also includes an industry supply chain review, recognizing the downstream clients, distribution channels, and prominent upstream suppliers, to help businesses in releasing their products & services successfully.
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How to Pick the Right Automation Project – Harvard Business Review
Posted: February 15, 2022 at 5:54 am
Intelligent automation is the fastest growing area of enterprise tech investment. The potential to boost performance in the typical company with these tools is both broad and deep. But as companies look for places to apply these tools, they often fall into two common traps: chasing quick, easy wins that wont have much impact, or big, ambitious projects that will offer major strategic advantages. What they should focus on, however, is a third option: projects that build their capacity.
Whenever a new wave of technology splashes onto the scene, managers face the same questions: Where do we start applying it first? Do we go after the low-hanging fruit that will produce quick wins and build the case for more ambitious projects? Or should we strategically focus, with no delay, on the applications that will give us a decisive edge over competitors?
Right now, with the arrival of a revolutionary set of technologies for automating knowledge work artificial intelligence in particular we see teams grappling with these questions at high levels in organizations. Intelligent automation (the term commonly used for robotic process automation, machine learning, and artificial intelligence in organizations) brings unprecedented speed, accuracy, and pattern-recognition power to business processes that routinely call for deciphering information, from fielding customers questions to complying with government regulations to detecting fraud and cyberattacks. Because that describes so much of the activity of modern workplaces, the deliberations about where to start and how to proceed are different than with other technologies. The same old answers dont apply.
The potential to boost performance in the typical company with these tools is both broad and deep. In one company we know, a team was assembled to survey all of its operations, find areas where peoples time was being consumed by repetitive information-processing work, and come back with candidate tasks for automation. The list stretched to hundreds of things a smart machine could do to leverage workers creativity, increase speed to decision, improve accuracy, or enhance service to customers.
There are also strong competitive incentives: Because of this potential, companies are investing in these tools at blistering rates according to Gartner, intelligent automation is the fastest growing area of enterprise tech investment. The pandemic gave the toolkit a giant shove forward as companies suddenly had to find new ways to perform mission-critical processes.
Whether driven by the opportunities or competitive pressure, your organization will likely soon be using intelligent automation in many, many corners of your operations. So, where should you start?
Instead of framing your goals in terms of quick victories (which wont really move the needle) or major strategic applications (which require skills and foundations you dont yet have in place), focus on how your first steps will advance capability-building in your organization. You should sequence the projects you take on knowing you will ultimately take on hundreds so that the early ones build the AI talents and put in place the AI tech infrastructure for the projects you will take on next, and next, and next.
Capability-building developing the strength of an organization to solve a class of problems it will keep facing in the future is a challenge you might have tackled in other realms. In areas from strategy formulation to project management, teams recognize that they can and must get better by learning from experience. And because there are fundamentals that must be mastered before they can advance to higher-order capabilities they have to walk before they can run teams often take their guidance from so-called maturity models, outlined by experts who have watched others travel the same path before. Given that your people will need to rise again and again to the challenge of implementing intelligent automation solutions, this is the approach that makes sense, but more of the thinking about the best sequence of steps will be up to you.
Planning this journey requires mapping out how your team or organization will deliberately move from a state of being a novice to being an expert.
The first step is usually an assessment of existing capabilities: the challenges your people already know how to tackle and the sophistication of the tools they have to solve them. Perhaps you already have strong data analytics skills on staff, for example, or people who have been involved in RPA installations elsewhere.
Your next step is a gap analysis. This details the difference between your current capabilities and the demands of the most challenging solution you can envision taking on. This might reveal that your current IT infrastructure is simply not equal to a coming wave of applications that will need to interact with disparate data sources. Or that much more effective collaboration will be needed between software developers and business process owners than has been seen in the past.
Finally, with the beginning and end states clearly articulated, you can then specify a step-by-step journey, with projects sequenced according to which ones can do the most in early days to lay essential foundations for later initiatives.
Heres an example to illustrate how this approach can lead to better choices. At a construction equipment manufacturer, there are three tempting areas to automate. One is the solution a vendor is offering: a chatbot tool that can be fairly simply implemented in the internal IT help desk with immediate impact on wait times and headcount. A second possibility is in finance, where sales forecasting could be enhanced by predictive modeling boosted by AI pattern recognition. The third idea is a big one: if the company could use intelligent automation to create a connected equipment environment on customer job sites, its business model could shift to new revenue streams from digital services such as monitoring and controlling machinery remotely.
If youre going for a relatively easy implementation and fast ROI, the first option is a no-brainer. If instead youre looking for big publicity for your organizations bold new vision, the third ones the ticket. You can set up a tiger team or separate organization and give it full license to disrupt the existing business. But note that neither of those approaches really prepares the ground for intelligent automation to spread to other applications by the existing organization; they dont make the people of your organization generally more interested, receptive, or able to apply intelligent technology elsewhere. In other words, as an organization, taking these routes doesnt take you far up the learning curve, toward greater maturity with the technology.
This is what option two would do in large part because it would demand that the company get its act together on data. Without a good enterprise data strategy, people in different parts of the organization lack common standards regarding what data needs to be gathered and how it should be organized, cleaned, and prepped for analysis. This is a foundational capability that the company will need to have in place to make headway in using machine learning at scale. From the standpoint of capability building, it is easy to see how progress on enterprise data would unlock, say, 10 other projects which in turn can be prioritized by the further capabilities they could add. Our manufacturing company could lay out a roadmap showing how, five years later, it will not only be reaping the returns of the specific projects, but also be generally and profoundly more ready to take on truly transformative initiatives.
Fifty years ago, when the legendary Peter Drucker coined the term knowledge workers, he also recognized how their rise in the global economy would challenge organizations. The most important contribution management needs to make in the twenty-first century, he wrote, is to increase the productivity of knowledge work. Finally, in intelligent automation, a powerful toolkit exists for doing that and the race is on. Avoid the mad dash that has your organization chasing possibilities but with no collective progress. Choose your spots wisely, and your investment in intelligent automation can be a capability-building journey.
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How Ransomware Gangs Use Automation, and How You Can Beat It – Recorded Future
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February 9, 2022 Sam Langrock
Few topics spark conversation like security automation. Automation is the entire premise around programming; routines and repetitive patterns are tasked to computers while humans work only on higher priorities. For security practitioners, this is essential because even a small network can have thousands of endpoints that need protecting while the security staff is miniscule. Yet the challenge facing organizations in 2022 is how to automate, not just the collation and data collection tasks where machines excel, but to automate the repetitive human decisions made daily to defend an enterprise. Join us for a three part blog series on automation and for a webinar on February 22nd titled, Fight Ransomware Robots With Automation Intelligence.
Ransomware gangs and security practitioners battle each other similar to how a baseball pitcher and hitter would duke it out. In this game dark web criminal actors focus on causing incidents, while security automation focuses on incident response. To increase their velocity and volume of attacks ransomware gangs are leveraging automation throughout their attack cycle. To keep up, security practitioners have turned to intelligence-led automation, which enables businesses to defend at scale with the speed necessary to make contact on every pitch. Much like baseball, in the cyber world there can be no ties. Intelligence provides the upper hand.
To help security practitioners gain an advantage, Recorded Futures Insikt Group reported on automation in the criminal underground. In their report, Insikt Group identified 10 key strategies ransomware criminals use automation to enable their attacks.
Hacked and compiled databases are sold on underground forums. These databases, often consisting of user credentials, give threat actors access to accounts and credentials of clients and employees. Once threat actors have access to these user-level accounts, actors can use leverage techniques, such as local privilege escalation vulnerabilities, which can be used to gain further access to internal systems or to commit fraud.
Stolen credentials from automated marketplaces need validation in order to ensure they will function as the criminals expect. Tools such as checkers can help threat actors to quickly and efficiently validate or access passwords for thousands of accounts. Brute-forcers are tools which automatically cycle through thousands of passwords a second in order to defeat systems with unlimited login attempts.
Loaders and crypters are tools which allow threat actors to obfuscate and deliver malicious payloads, bypassing antivirus solutions.
Stealers and keyloggers enable threat actors to gather sensitive information from victim systems, including credentials, personally identifiable information (PII), payment card information, and other data.
Threat actors use banking injects as fake overlays over legitimate sites to financial institutions and similar sites where they can collect sensitive information from victims trying to visit the legitimate site.
Exploit kits allow threat actors to use multiple exploits simultaneously to target various vulnerabilities across different targets.
Threat actors gain access to hundreds of thousands of potential victims for their lures with spam and phishing services.
Bulletproof hosting services (BPHS) provide secure hosting for malicious content and activity, and assure anonymity to threat actors.
Sniffers infiltrate legitimate online shopping sites and collect sensitive information such as payment cards and the PII of customers from trusted online stores.
Automated marketplaces and logs vendors allow threat actors to sell stolen credentials and digital fingerprints to other threat actors, who use them for fraud or to facilitate further breaches, frequently circumventing anti-fraud measures.
Bad actors are well acquainted with subverting defensive automated technology. For example, they might craft malicious code to appear normal to automated scans, such as antivirus applications. Security teams with careful monitoring and logging established can create rules to detect these seemingly-normal patterns and behaviors for the malicious files they are. However, threat actors can quickly take action, such as rotating their infrastructure, to get around being blocked. This means rules must be manually generated for each new iteration of malware, leading to a security treadmill where efficiencies are lost to an endless cycle of detection/patching new malware.
Step off the treadmill with Intelligence. Intelligence gives your team a cheat code, enabling them to pull rules already tested to identify and mitigate ransomware attacks from doing damage.
Join us for a webinar on February 22nd titled, Fight Ransomware Robots With Automation Intelligence to learn more about how automation can assist your organization.
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The crucial role of test scenarios, especially in automation – TechTarget
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The selection and development of test scenarios is one of the most critical components of any software testing strategy. Test scenarios describe what components, functions, interfaces or other pieces of the application a team will test. In addition, they will generate the foundation for the documentation that surrounds those testing procedures.
In this article, we'll examine the technical details behind test scenarios, including their direct connection with test cases, how to develop effective test scenarios that accelerate QA processes and -- perhaps most importantly -- the enormous role they play in determining which tests are sensible targets for automation.
We'll also review which team members should be involved in these types of decisions, as well as a technique known as the test automation pyramid.
While test scenarios and test cases are often discussed in conjunction with one another, and sometimes thought of as synonymous, it's important to remember that they each play a distinct role in both manual and automated testing efforts.
While the test cases form the coding structure QA teams will use to create automated test scripts, the test scenarios will help those teams determine which specific tests to automate.
Test scenarios are the high-level documentation of what QA professionals will test. They are developed according to business and systems requirements, and describe the functionality and how the user will execute the function.
Test cases, meanwhile, are specifications that provide a detailed, step-by-step documentation of application testing procedures, including a list of expected test results. QA professionals can execute test cases manually or develop them into automated scripts.
The selection and development of test scenarios is a critical component of any software testing strategy, and even more important in automated testing. While the test cases form the coding structure QA teams will use to create automated test scripts, the test scenarios will help those teams determine which specific tests to automate.
Typically, teams will assemble test scenarios using a combination of user stories and user acceptance criteria. However, test scenarios can also stem from personas, which act as an overarching profile of expected user behaviors and anticipated needs. Well-developed personas can help teams create test scenarios that focus on the features they think will be most important to the vast majority of users.
Behavior-driven development (BDD) can be another productive approach. BDD loops the business side into the development process, but still provides focus on anticipated user behavior. For instance, the Gherkin syntax implements the Given-When-Then formula using a plain, easy-to-read language that both software-side and business-side personnel can understand. With the support of the Cucumber BDD testing framework, Gherkin then facilitates the development of automated test scripts directly from the test scenarios it contains.
Once a team identifies their test scenarios, it's time to create an actual testing strategy. This involves determining the specific scenarios the QA team will test manually versus ones they will slate for automated testing. To make effective decisions, this work needs to be done early in the development process.
During this step, it's critical to identify the domain under which the testing will take place. For example, certain regulatory requirements can determine the types of test scenarios the team selects and executes, including the level of detail those testing procedures and corresponding documentation encapsulate. Another relevant factor might be the methodologies currently in use, as well as the general maturity of those methodologies.
While automation has increasingly become a critical part of today's test strategies, not every test scenario will be an appropriate target for automation. Even when merging an automated continuous testing process into a CI/CD pipeline, QA teams should still execute things such as UX-focused GUI tests manually.
However, those teams should choose manual test scenarios carefully. To help clarify this, here are some examples of test scenarios that are appropriate for manual testing:
Alternatively, test scenarios merit automation when critical features require repetitive testing and are simply too hard for teams to handle manually. For instance, tests that involve large volumes of data or complex data entry procedures often fit the bill for automation. And while test cases that run over long periods of time can be complex to automate, it's a labor investment that will significantly accelerate QA processes down the line.
Choosing test scenarios for automation should be a team effort that includes test leads, automation specialists, SDETs (software development engineers in test), developers and product owners. The product owners are especially important to loop in here, as they are uniquely qualified to point out scenarios that most accurately simulate the real-world user workflow. Developers also carry a lot of weight here, as they can highlight the scenarios that require testing on complex collections of code.
One technique that can be extremely helpful in the manual vs. automated testing decision is the test automation pyramid.
To start, the test automation pyramid dictates that automation should primarily reside at the unit and component test level, as these tests are typically the least complex and easiest to automate.
In addition, a high level of unit test coverage can help teams detect defects and implement remedial fixes in the early stages of the development process.
Meanwhile, GUI-level tests reside at the top of the test automation pyramid. Tests performed on functional components like a GUI are usually the most difficult to maintain; therefore, it's best to keep automated GUI tests to a minimum, provided that those targets for automation aren't particularly complex components.
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Years Later: Research Shows Employee Opinion on Automation – Occupational Health and Safety
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Years Later: Research Shows Employee Opinion on Automation
Researchers were able to determine how warehouse employees really feel about their automated coworkers.
There are over 1.5 million employees working in warehouses across the country and some have coworkers of a robotic nature. Recently, a team of researchers set out to seek the opinions of those who have worked closely with automation technology to gain a better understanding of how it has begun to settle into everyday work.
According to a Harvard Business Review article, Joe Lui, Raghav Narsalay, Rushda Afzal, Ida Nair Sharma and Dave Light wrote about interviews conducted with over 65 employees who worked in a warehouse facility. The video interviews were a peek behind the curtain into the $15 billion AI technology market, which is currently set to double within the next four years.
The researchers asked questions based on the duties of the employee. For warehouse workers the following questions were asked:
For those employees who were front-line supervisors, the researchers asked the following:
Researchers found, though data analysis that extracted key themes from responses, that the response was about 40 percent negative and 60 percent positive when it came to automation in the workplace.
Those who felt negatively were afraid to lose the jobs, worried about having inadequate access to training resources, and dealing with downtime or errors caused by technology malfunctions. Of those that responded positively, worker were optimistic that the automation was actually helping them to complete their duties in a more safe manner, was increasing productivity and improving the quality of their work.
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